December 20, 2010
A field trip to a museum was one of the necessary educational activities while growing up. I think it still is. The only difference is that with the explosion of the web and virtual environments, a student can cover so many more sights than earlier possible. Virtual environments open up many more educational options. You [...]
October 25, 2010
You don’t need to get dressed up to visit an art gallery. Some (most?) of the world’s best artwork has been imaged and is available at your fingertips! Although sometimes a visit in person is necessary to get the full impact of a piece, many art galleries have scanned their pieces for the wider viewing [...]
September 7, 2010
Visual arts affect almost all of our experiences on a daily basis. It influences the photographs we see in magazines, the ads on billboards, the colors of the latest trend in fashion, the designs of the buildings that surround us and even labels in the products we buy. Art can empower revolutions, like the famous [...]
July 9, 2010
When you’re trying to remember the exact course of a conversation, to retrieve a lost web address, or just want to reminiscence tales of a past long gone, your chat logs can help you out big time. Taking note of conversations may sound unnecessary, or even plain paranoid, but often proves to be extremely useful. [...]
June 19, 2010
Today it’s pretty uncommon to scan a Windows computer and not find at least one virus. These pieces of self-replicating code mimic their genetic namesake, spreading themselves as quickly as possible. They are so much a part of modern life that you’d think they were around since the first computer. They weren’t. These modern marvels [...]
April 16, 2010
Our family loves hunting for treasures. We mostly meet our needs through geocaching, but we also like to visit and photograph abandoned places and trains. There is something sweet about remembering things that have been forgotten. One of our favorite local finds was an old jail “holding house” in the middle of the woods here. [...]
February 24, 2010
Students become stakeholders in the learning process WITHOUT having to dress up like Benjamin Franklin.
January 2, 2010
Another calendar gets consigned to the trashcan. 365 days of memories and events from here on will gather dust either in minds or in our journals. But history is enriched by what that passes. And sometimes in our present, we too are tempted to look back at what has passed and relive the moments. It [...]
September 30, 2009
At first look, it seems strange that a name like BBC is prefixed with a web service that calls itself BBC Memoryshare and that stores and replays personal memory bits like a social sharing site. But, doesn’t memory of events past translate into history? Personal memoirs provide us with lessons in history that a classroom [...]
June 15, 2009
A few years ago, during a family reunion, I learned for the first time that my granduncle on my father’s side had fought and died in World War II. The story of his demise sparked a personal interest toward my own family history. So, I did what I always do when I have something to [...]
